Ada Blackjack

A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2004 by Hyperion.

ISBN:
978-0-7868-8746-0
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OCLC Number:
57832593

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”Stefansson could not manage a peanut stand, my husband always said.”

I read Buddy Levy’s fascinating Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk not too long ago (seriously, go read it if you haven’t, it’s great), and one of the things that struck me about that particular voyage was how irresponsible its benefactor, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, seemed during the entire thing. He lost a whole vessel immediately after getting started, shrugged his shoulders, and immediately fucked off to the arctic coast rather than travel with his one remaining boat. So when I read later on that he had the utter brass balls to try it again with an entirely different voyage and people went along with it, I had to know more. This book is about the second time grifter Stefansson tried to sell people on his idea of a friendly arctic and become …

Subjects

  • History: World
  • Discovery And Exploration (General)
  • History (Specific Aspects)
  • History
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Polar Regions
  • Adventurers & Explorers
  • Native Americans
  • History / Polar Regions
  • Arctic regions
  • Biography
  • Discovery and exploration
  • Inuit women
  • Women explorers
  • Wrangel Island (Russia)